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...Mira Zaman Abstract As the long eighteenth century brought forth a new wave of secular ethics, Daniel Defoe expressed serious concern about a particular figure who was losing status among the intellectual elite: the Devil. In his Political History of the Devil , Defoe insists that waning belief...

... the blows.” The youth, before dying, curses the master, asking God to allow the devil to inflict similar punishments on his master. The youth’s call for vengeance is soon realized: Three or four days after the youth’s death, this tyrant — for I can call him nothing else — became plagued...

... “The Dream” and two pieces by Tom Brown. Brown’s “A Match for the Devil” is one of the filthiest of all vaginal exposure poems, while “Melesin- Deformity Poems and Other Nasties 2 0 3 da’s Misfortune” is a milder tale about a maid who sets fire to her smock while dreaming...

..., especially in recent years. Ste- phen A. Barney’s 1991 anthology Annotation and Its Texts beautifully frames the debates that continue in such works as Anthony Grafton’s The Footnote: A Curious History (1997) and Chuck Zerby’s The Devil’s Details: A History of Footnotes (2002). A glance...

... was taken and nearly killed, last week, disguised as the devil, in the act of extorting 150 dollars from a farmer. He was dressed, and spit fire and brimstone, like a proper devil. He is now in prison. A Yankee traveller, lodging for the night, struck...

... (2002), Don Quixote (2003), The Devil upon Crutches (2005), and The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane (2011). The Adventures of Roderick Random (2012) is the tenth and penultimate vol- ume of the Georgia Smollett, now under the general editorship of Alexander Pettit. All but one...

... and Force compel Men to be religious, because if we do, we cannot make them sincere, and so by Persecution we only create Hypocrites; yet I insist that we may by Force, and that with the greatest Justice possible, suppress Paganism, and the Worship of God’s Enemy the Devil, and banish it out...

... of testicles that hang from the devil s pitchfork, while in the background, a temple of Fame collapses, and the figure of Fame falls from it, dropping its trumpet. A reading of Melpomene alongside Shake- speare Sacrificed might also have demonstrated the repeated themes of art being forsaken for money...

... Engagement, listed Soldiers for God’s Service, against the Devil’s Kingdom” (p. 148). Wing wrongly attributes this to Woodward as an edn. of his An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Religious Societies [1698], which is a completely different text. The British...

... more than I do in Wapping or the Pier & Shore of Leith. There are numberless Palaces all of Marble & loaded with ornament but my feeling is not pleasure but Still wonder how the Devil they got there. I have lost all relish for what the Sailors call Ginger bread work even...

...). Although it is unclear whether it is the crime of sodomy or the examples of the recent hangings that are so present with us, the journal nonetheless sustains a focus on the narrative as admonition, representing the central hellish visions as a Warning to all wicked People how they give ear to the Devil...

...: the for- mer devil Wilkes, refreshingly free of any anti-Catholic prejudice, turned upstanding citizen in defending London more eff ectively than most of its other elected offi cers. This irony was not lost on those who remembered 38 Eighteenth-Century Life the recent past. The dramatist Frederick...

... Press of Harvard Univ., 2010), and The Devil in the Holy Water or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2010). Review essays of the latter work appeared in H-France­ Forum 5 (2010), by Goeffrey Turnovsky (91 – ​96), and Simon Burrows (91 – ​113...

... and because of the same people. Stop them. We must remember the regicide or we will forget religion and virtue. Swift’s values are those of an angry mind for whom the known devil is better than the unknown devil. For many later practitioners of the sermon, the devil’s sting had been pulled and his...

... to show Milton working among his contemporaries. Mock Epic Milton’s best-known contribution to the ascendancy of mock epic in the period that immediately followed his own is the parodic figure of Satan as monarch, and the other devils as his heroic epigones. Book 2 of Paradise Lost, in which...

... in the infancy of this art) where the Devil is but one great blot . . . and the rest of the Figures Monochroms as ridiculous and extravagant (35). In the final section of his history, Evelyn explains the value of prints. He declares that for educating children, What can there be more likely to informe...

..., Dictionary , s.v. “Midshipman.” 13. Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1987). For conditions for merchant seamen, see also Peter Earle, Sailors: English Merchant Seamen...

... painting is “The Devil’s Invention, absolutely a Sin, ECL26102-23-chic.q4 5/24/02 1:04 PM Page 22 22 Eighteenth-Century Life not only in the Abuse, but the very Use; in the nature of the thing, and not only in the Intention of the Doer” (p. 127...

... Cruickshank, Joanna. Pain, Passion, and Faith: Revisiting the Place of Charles Wesley in Early Methodism (Lanham: Scarecrow/Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements, 2009). Pp. xiii + 187. $45 Darnton, Robert. The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis...

... the London public with advertise- ments for an array of “New Grand Medley Entertainments,” all of which promised “Wonderful Wonders, Wonders and Wonders,” Katterfelto was regarded by many as an impostor and mountebank. Country folk thought of him as the devil himself.14 Nevertheless, despite his fl...